2 killed after oil truck, car collide in Yemen's Aden

Source:Xinhua Published: 2020/5/20 9:46:35

An oil carrier truck is seen overturned after a collision with a car in Aden, Yemen, May 19, 2020. Two people were killed and three others were injured after an oil carrier truck and a car collided in Yemen's southern port city of Aden on Tuesday, a security official told Xinhua. (Photo by Murad Abdo/Xinhua)

Two people were killed and three others were injured after an oil carrier truck and a car collided in Yemen's southern port city of Aden on Tuesday, a security official told Xinhua.

The local security source said on condition of anonymity that "collision of a truck loaded with oil and a car caused a huge fire that killed two people and injured three others in Aden's neighborhood of Mansourah."

The collision's fire also burned a number of residential buildings nearby and caused some damage, he said.

He added that the injured people were taken to hospital, one of them was with life-threatening injuries.

Local Yemeni police forces arrived at the scene and began an investigation into the incident.

The southern port city of Aden is considered as Yemen's temporary capital where the Saudi-backed Yemeni government has been based since 2015.

The impoverished Arab country has been locked into a civil war since late 2014, when the Houthi rebels overran much of the country and seized all northern provinces, including the capital Sanaa.